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...repeated explosion of nuclear weaponry in the Marshall Islands. Usually the examinations involve a checking of thyroid glands, Darlene Keju, a Marshallese says, but only those who were around during the explosion of a 1954 hydrogen bomb are examined. "They are only interested in studies using us as guinea pigs," Keju says, adding that the recent generations of Marshallese are used as a control group for the tests...
...When Guinea was preparing for independence from France in 1958, President Charles de Gaulle proposed that it join in a Franco-African community that was to maintain political and economic ties to France. The leaders of all twelve other former French colonies in Africa decided to participate, but not intense, eloquent Ahmed Sékou Touré. Said he to De Gaulle: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery...
That single act, Touré would often say over the next quarter-century, was the proudest moment of his life. It also represented a high point for both Guinea and Touré, a son of a poor farmer who became the West African nation's first and only ruler. When Touré died last week at 62 in a Cleveland hospital, to which he had been rushed for treatment of a worsening heart condition, he left behind a record of thoroughgoing repression, oppression and tyranny that began to abate only a few years ago. Lamented France...
...International, at least 2,900 citizens had "disappeared." Many were sent to detention camps, where some prisoners were locked in cells that were too small to allow them to stand up or lie down and were put on the infamous "black diet," completely deprived of food or water. Of Guinea's nearly 6 million inhabitants, 2 million now live in exile in the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and other neighboring countries...
Instead, the U.S. government and military have used the islands--which make up an area known as Micronesia that is nearly as large as the U.S. itself--as a test site for advanced nuclear weaponry, frequently relocating island inhabitants to do so. The Marshall Islanders have become guinea pigs for the detonation of at least 66 atomic and hydrogen bombs in the 1940s...